Granite 4.1 3B SVG Pelican Gallery 🔗
<p><strong><a href="https://simonw.github.io/granite-4.1-3b-gguf-pelicans/">Granite 4.1 3B SVG Pelican Gallery</a></strong></p> IBM released the [...]
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Quoting Andy Masley 🔗
<blockquote cite="https://blog.andymasley.com/p/data-center-land-use-issues-are-fake"><p>[...] Between 2000 and 2024, farmers sold in total a Col [...]
April 2026 newsletter 🔗
<p>I just sent out the April edition of my <a href="https://github.com/sponsors/simonw/">sponsors-only monthly newsletter</a>. If you are a spons [...]
TRE Python binding — ReDoS robustness demo 🔗
<p><strong>Research:</strong> <a href="https://github.com/simonw/research/tree/main/tre-python-binding#readme">TRE Python binding — ReDo [...]
Redis Array Playground 🔗
<p><strong>Tool:</strong> <a href="https://tools.simonwillison.net/redis-array">Redis Array Playground</a></p> <p>Salvatore Sanf [...]
Quoting Anthropic 🔗
<blockquote cite="https://www.anthropic.com/research/claude-personal-guidance"><p>We used an automatic classifier which judged sycophancy by look [...]
Sightings 🔗
<p><strong><a href="https://simonwillison.net/elsewhere/sighting/">/elsewhere/sightings/</a></strong></p> I have a new camera (a Canon R6 Mark I [...]
iNaturalist Sightings 🔗
<p><strong>Tool:</strong> <a href="https://tools.simonwillison.net/inat-sightings">iNaturalist Sightings</a></p> <p>I wanted to [...]
Codex CLI 0.128.0 adds /goal 🔗
<p><strong><a href="https://github.com/openai/codex/releases/tag/rust-v0.128.0">Codex CLI 0.128.0 adds /goal</a></strong></p> The latest version [...]
Our evaluation of OpenAI's GPT-5.5 cyber capabilities 🔗
<p><strong><a href="https://www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/our-evaluation-of-openais-gpt-5-5-cyber-capabilities">Our evaluation of OpenAI's GPT-5.5 c [...]
Quoting Andrew Kelley 🔗
<blockquote cite="https://lobste.rs/s/ifcyr1/contributor_poker_zig_s_ai_ban#c_cbtxub"><p>It's a common misconception that we can't tell who is us [...]
We need RSS for sharing abundant vibe-coded apps 🔗
<p><strong><a href="https://interconnected.org/home/2026/04/29/syndicating-vibes">We need RSS for sharing abundant vibe-coded apps</a></strong>< [...]
The Zig project's rationale for their firm anti-AI contribution policy 🔗
<p><a href="https://ziglang.org/">Zig</a> has one of the most stringent <a href="https://ziglang.org/code-of-conduct/">anti-LLM policies</a> of a [...]
llm 0.32a1 🔗
<p><strong>Release:</strong> <a href="https://github.com/simonw/llm/releases/tag/0.32a1">llm 0.32a1</a></p> <blockquote> <ul> <l [...]
LLM 0.32a0 is a major backwards-compatible refactor 🔗
<p>I just released <a href="https://llm.datasette.io/en/latest/changelog.html#a0-2026-04-28">LLM 0.32a0</a>, an alpha release of my <a href="http [...]
llm 0.32a0 🔗
<p><strong>Release:</strong> <a href="https://github.com/simonw/llm/releases/tag/0.32a0">llm 0.32a0</a></p> <p>See <a href="http [...]
Quoting OpenAI Codex base_instructions 🔗
<blockquote cite="https://github.com/openai/codex/blob/66b0781502be5de3b1909525c987643b9e5e407d/codex-rs/models-manager/models.json#L55"><p><code [...]
Quoting Matthew Yglesias 🔗
<blockquote cite="https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/2049105745132585161"><p>Five months in, I think I've decided that I don't want to vibec [...]
What's new in pip 26.1 - lockfiles and dependency cooldowns! 🔗
<p><strong><a href="https://ichard26.github.io/blog/2026/04/whats-new-in-pip-26.1/">What's new in pip 26.1 - lockfiles and dependency coold [...]
Introducing talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930 🔗
<p><strong><a href="https://talkie-lm.com/introducing-talkie">Introducing talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930</a></strong></p> New pr [...]
microsoft/VibeVoice 🔗
<p><strong><a href="https://github.com/microsoft/VibeVoice">microsoft/VibeVoice</a></strong></p> VibeVoice is Microsoft's Whisper-style audio mo [...]
Tracking the history of the now-deceased OpenAI Microsoft AGI clause 🔗
<p>For many years, Microsoft and OpenAI's relationship has included a weird clause saying that, should AGI be achieved, Microsoft's commercial IP [...]
Speech translation in Google Meet is now rolling out to mobile devices 🔗
<p><strong><a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2026/04/speech-translation-in-google-meet-is-now-rolling-out-to-mobile-devices.html" [...]
WHY ARE YOU LIKE THIS 🔗
<p>@scottjla <a href="https://twitter.com/scottjla/status/2047535371664457863">on Twitter</a> in reply to my <a href="https://simonwillison.net/t [...]
Quoting Romain Huet 🔗
<blockquote cite="https://twitter.com/romainhuet/status/2047955381578838357"><p>Since GPT-5.4, we’ve unified Codex and the main model into a sing [...]
GPT-5.5 prompting guide 🔗
<p><strong><a href="https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/prompt-guidance?model=gpt-5.5">GPT-5.5 prompting guide</a></strong></p> Now th [...]
llm 0.31 🔗
<p><strong>Release:</strong> <a href="https://github.com/simonw/llm/releases/tag/0.31">llm 0.31</a></p> <blockquote> <ul> <li>Ne [...]
The people do not yearn for automation 🔗
<p><strong><a href="https://www.theverge.com/podcast/917029/software-brain-ai-backlash-databases-automation">The people do not yearn for automat [...]
DeepSeek V4 - almost on the frontier, a fraction of the price 🔗
<p>Chinese AI lab DeepSeek's last model release was V3.2 (and V3.2 Speciale) <a href="https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/1/deepseek-v32/">last De [...]
Millisecond Converter 🔗
<p><strong>Tool:</strong> <a href="https://tools.simonwillison.net/milliseconds">Millisecond Converter</a></p> <p><a href="https [...]